MARK !
The erudition on this list always makes me smile.
Kenneth Waller
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Derby Chang" <derbyc at iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: GESO - Future food, future wine
> Bob W wrote:
>>>>>> Yep, it's a themed wine and food degustation menu, looks
>>> more than
>>>>>> interesting.
>>>>>>>>>>>> -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio)
>>>>>>>>>>>> =============
>>>>>> You forced me to look that word up. :-P
>>>>>>>>>>> Leave it to Rob to use a word that is marked "Rare" in the
>>>>> dictionary.. \smile on/\smile off/
>>>>>>>>>> I had to look it up too. Good one Rob!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I suspect it's only rare in the USA. It's very common in
>>> Europe. And
>>>> especially common in France for some reason. Probably
>>> something to do
>>>> with it being their language and their food and wine.
>>>>>>>>>>> "Degustation" is common terminology in New York rstautants. I believe
>>> there's even an establishment that goes by that name. I believe it has
>>> its roots in Latin.
>>> Paul
>>>>>>> Indeed, although the word itself is French, which we have borrowed. But
>> we
>> see the same root word in 'disgust', 'gustatory'. We also have the Latin
>> phrase 'de gustibus non est disputandum', meaning 'there's no accounting
>> for
>> taste'. There's also 'gusto' from Spanish - 'we ate the spaniel with
>> gusto!'.
>>>> The word apparently has its roots in proto-Indo-European and has come
>> down
>> the Germanic branches in words like 'choose'.
>>>> Bob
>>>>>>> The erudition on this list always makes me smile.
>> Thanks to everyone who commented. And, indeed, we were so very fully
> degusted, we couldn't have eaten one more spaniel.